Hey Stack Overflow members, I am trying to parse this text and get two separate matches, the unordered markdown list blocks. The problem is that i cannot figure out a way to match them. There maybe text after them.
I am using JavaScript flavored regex.
This is what i have been trying, full example: Regex101
(\*|\t\*|\s+\*).*
List:
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 2a
* Item 2b
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 2a
* Item 2b
Thank you in advance for your help.
[\s\S] will make JavaScript multiline, since dot . doesn't do multiline.
[\s\S] will search for every whitespace and non-whitespace character including newline characters.
var match = document.querySelector("pre").textContent.match(/(\*|\t\*|\s+\*)[\s\S]*?\n\n/g);
console.log(match);<pre>
When there is text preceding the block
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 2a
* Item 2b
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 2a
* Item 2b
When there is more text in the block
</pre>Another method. Use the global flag g for your match.
var match = document.querySelector("pre").textContent.match(/(\*|\t\*|\s+\*).*/g);
//raw match
console.log(match);
//with trim
match_trim = match.map(function(element){
return (element.trim());
});
console.log(match_trim);
//with join
match_join = match.join("");
console.log(match_join);<pre>
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 2a
* Item 2b
* Item 1
* Item 2
* Item 2a
* Item 2b
</pre>
(\*|\t\*|\s+\*)[\s\S]*?\n\n. I advise method two though, for more control.